Gordain

Hello, thank you very much for inviting me again to the show.

And yeah, I'm really glad to be here.

And I am ready to talk about all the things that have happening in the past few weeks in Kurdistan and Iran.

Yeah, sure.

So just a few days before the New Year's Eve on December 28, there was a spontaneous demonstration and strike in Tehran's Grand Bazaar, which is basically the center of Iran's trade and

one of the most important backbones of the Islamic regime or revolution.

There were strikes inside the bazaar and so many shopkeepers and business owners just closed down their businesses and they took to the streets and inside the shopping centers and they started chanting,

And they were basically protesting the horrible economic situations and the decrees of the Iranian rial or the Iranian currency against the U.S.

dollar, which was one dollar was equal to one million point four hundred thousand Iranian rials.

And then these protests quickly spreaded all over the city in Tehran.

And as usual, this is what happens all the time.

The Iranian regime forces, they started attacking people and trying to control the situation, but it somehow got out of their control.

And the next days, these protests, these strikes spread to other cities, to other major cities from Shiraz, Mashhad, Isfahan, Tabriz, and many other cities got involved.

But in the early January, around January 5 to 6 and 7...

There were major protests in cities like Malik Shahi in Ilan province and other cities in Kermanshah province, which are basically the Kurdish provinces in Western Iran.

What is really unique about this is that usually when protests happen across Iran or when there is something happening, the Kurdish regions are the first to react.

But this time, the Kurdish regions

Like if I want to say the West Azerbaijan province and the Sanandaj province, they were not really involved because a lot of people were saying that in the previous movements, especially in 2022, we gave too much.

There were too many victims here, but the center was silent.

I mean,